Annie Oeth: Parents torn, concerned about funding

7:10 PM,
Feb. 16, 2013

Written by

Annie Oeth
| aoeth@jackson.gannett.com

Charter schools are either the best thing since sliced bread or the ruination of public education. They're innovative places where class days can be longer or educators can zero in on areas of study such as the arts or science and technology, or they will siphon off needed money from existing public schools.

According to some parents, charter schools may be all those things. Parents seem torn on the subject of charter schools, the implementation of which can seem daunting at times. After all, if the experiment of charter schools is tried in Mississippi, it will affect the education of not just ...